Getting started
Create your first monitor in under two minutes. Only a name and a URL are required - every other setting has a default you can change later.
Create a monitor
- Sign up at monitor.vantield.com. No card is required, and your first team starts with a 14-day Pro trial.
- Open Monitors and enter a name and the URL to check. The URL must start with
http://orhttps://. - Choose a check interval and save. The first check runs immediately, so you see a result within seconds.
Monitor settings
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP method | GET | GET and POST on every plan; HEAD and PUT on Enterprise. |
| Expected status code | 200 | The check passes only on an exact match. Set 301, 204, or any code from 100 to 599 if that is the correct response. |
| Check interval | Your choice | 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes. Free starts at 5 minutes; Pro and Enterprise at 1 minute. |
| Response timeout threshold | 10 seconds | 5, 10, 15, 30, or 45 seconds. A response slower than this counts as a failure, and its real response time is still recorded. |
| Verify SSL certificate | On | Fails the check on an invalid or expired certificate. Turn it off for internal services with self-signed certificates. |
| Response body match | Off | Text that must appear in the response. Catches a 200 response that serves a maintenance page or the wrong content. |
| Request body | None | POST and PUT only. See Monitoring an API endpoint. |
| User-Agent | Chrome 136 + VantieldMonitor/1.0 | Override it if your firewall or bot protection needs a specific value. |
| Dependency URL | None | Pro and Enterprise. See Dependency monitoring. |
| Alert policy | Default policy | Who is notified and when. See Alerts and notifications. |
After you save
- The monitor detail page shows uptime, response time, recent checks, and incidents.
- Check Now runs an on-demand check without waiting for the next interval.
- Test Alert sends a test notification through your alert policy, so you can confirm delivery before a real outage.
Import monitors from CSV
To add many monitors at once, upload a CSV on the Monitors page. Columns are name,url,interval,dependency_url, with the interval in seconds:
name,url,interval,dependency_url Marketing site,https://www.example.com,300, Public API,https://api.example.com/health,60,https://auth.example.com/health
Intervals snap to the nearest allowed value at or below the one you give, and never below your plan's minimum. Imported monitors use GET and expect a 200; edit them afterwards to change the method or add a body. An import that would exceed your plan's monitor limit is rejected in full.